Sugar Confectionery

The increasing rate of obesity has inadvertently pushed consumers away from sugar, driving them from sugar confectionery to other snacking options that are perceived as healthier or lower in sugar. In recent years, more sugar confectionery ...

In line with increasing consumer awareness of food ingredients and sugar aversion, manufacturers and retailers are responding to this trend, with more sugar-free or reduced-sugar options becoming available across sugar confectionery. Back in late ...

Cannabis is disrupting most major FMCG industries from alcohol to beauty, and pet care to pharma. But what about the confectionery industry? Facing stalling growth and a sugar rush of health trends curtailing sales, diversification and value-added ...

The sugar confectionery category has shown strong performance in 2018 and 2019, and one of the major drivers of this growth has been pastilles, gums, jellies and chews. This subcategory comprises nearly half of sugar confectionery overall, and it has...

The growth in sugar confectionery is driven by the ongoing “small fortune” social trend. This entails the desire for small pleasures, especially when spending power is low. This demand is typical among young adults, whose spending power is restrained...

Standard mints and pastilles, gums, jellies and chews accounted for well over half of overall sugar confectionery retail value sales in 2019. The former was notably larger than the latter, but these two were mainly unchallenged by other parts of ...

Retail current value sales of sugar confectionery increased in 2019, but this was mainly driven by a rise in inflation, with volume sales remaining almost static. This was due to the ongoing war on sugar, which will continue to hamper volume growth ...

Sugar confectionery saw a poor performance in 2019, with all categories continuing to see both retail volume and current value declines. Boiled sweets, the second biggest category in value terms, saw the slowest decline, whilst standard mints and ...

Despite the development of new products, sales of sugar confectionery continued to decline in both retail volume and current value terms in 2019, due to increasing consumer awareness of the negative impact of sugar on health. Sales of pocket ...

In 2019, sugar confectionery continued to see slow but steady retail volume and current value growth. Other sugar confectionery continued to lead in terms of value sales. This category includes traditional products such as lokum (Turkish delight), ...

Pastilles, gums, jellies and chews remained the largest category within sugar confectionery in 2019. The category includes chewy jellies known as gumi in Japanese. These products are popular amongst a wide range of consumers, but particularly amongst...

2019 saw sugar confectionery return to growth in total volume and current value sales after three consecutive years of decline. The recovery was underpinned by a general improvement in economic conditions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which increased ...

In Italy, when shopping for sugar confectionery, consumers are still choosing healthier options such as sugar-free and reduced sugar sweets. Hence, brands such as Ricola which are sugar-free are performing well amid the overall decline in sugar ...

Retail volume growth of sugar confectionery declined in 2019 as these products are not as popular among adults as they are with children, while the presence of unpackaged products such as boiled sweets, mints and jellies remains high in traditional ...

Growth in sugar confectionery current value sales outpaced volume sales growth in 2019 as rising raw material costs caused unit prices to increase in most categories. Manufacturers pursued different strategies to mitigate the impact of price hikes, ...

Amongst the types of “other sugar confectionery” sold in Vietnam, which includes cotton candy, marshmallows and popping confectionery, ready-to-eat jelly is the most highly popular. In 2019, the jellies/pudding category saw the highest value growth ...

Sugar confectionery is a very mature category in Finland, benefiting from high per capita consumption. Despite the ongoing health and wellness trend, many Finnish consumers do allow themselves to occasionally indulge...

The increasingly high obesity rate in Malaysia is driving consumers to reduce their sugar intake. Sugar confectionery, including boiled sweets, pastilles, gums, jellies and chews, as well as toffees, caramels and nougat is most affected. Consumers ...

Although in 2019 sugar confectionery in Bolivia continued to record positive results in both retail volume and current value terms, the category’s growth rates slowed slightly when compared to 2018. This can be largely attributed to the country’s ...

As in 2018, sugar confectionery recorded a decline in retail volume sales in 2019 but a positive performance in current value terms, with this being down to the Norwegian government implementing an 84% increase to the country’s sugar tax at the start...